Penguin calls Briere dirtiest player in NHL

Tanner Glass, one of the most obscure Pittsburgh Penguins, was at his locker Wednesday morning taking shots at a player he views as the NHL’s No. 1 cheap-shot artist.

The journeyman forward never mentioned a certain teammate who was sitting directly across the room and looking his way.

According to Glass, there’s a dirtier player than Penguins forward Matt Cooke, who has a long resume of ugliness in his game and just last week ended Ottawa Senators superstar Erik Karlsson’s season with a controversial skate-to-the-tendon incident.

His choice is Danny Briere, the Flyers’ lovable little forward who has scored a lot of goals and put up a lot of points playing amongst a lot of much bigger fellows.

“I think so,” Glass told the Courier-Post before the Flyers-Penguins game at Consol Energy Center. “For being a guy who is known as a skill guy, an offensive player, if you look back at some of his clips, his play in the past … there’s some dirty plays. He’ll give you a stick in the …”